UHD News
Welcome New UHD Employees
Please join us in welcoming our new UHD Gators! Remember to extend a warm Gator "hello" to our new colleagues when you see them around campus. Brieyana Lee - Assistant Director, Gator Resource Center Nyetta Meaux Moore- Director, Graduate...
Inside UHD Club Sports: Wrestling Goes to Nationals!
This past week, the UHD Wrestling Team sent two students, freshman Lelan Hernandez and senior Carlos Lopez, who boast impressive 77.78% and 66.67% win percentages respectively, to the 2026 NCWA National Championships! The Men’s Volleyball team...
UHD Dining News: March 30-April 3
Hungry, Gators? If you are dining on campus, make sure to check out the new items and specials available at UHD's Food Court. As always, if you are on the run and want a quick bite, you can stop by any one of the colleges' micromarkets, Starbucks,...
AMA UHD Earns National Recognition at 2026 AMA International Collegiate Conference
Across three days of competition with peers from around the country, UHD students earned recognition from the judges in the Fundraising, Communications, and Chapter Plan categories. Additionally, Marketing professor Michael Pettiette, Ed.D., earned...
Join UHD’s Zero Waste Team for Earth Day at Discovery Green
Join UHD’s Center for Urban Agriculture & Sustainability (CUAS) in making Earth Day 2026 a zero-waste event at Discovery Green! We’re recruiting 100 UHD student volunteers to help lead sustainability efforts at one of Houston’s largest Earth Day...
Building a Career Through Curiosity, Collaboration, and Connection
Curiosity has never been a fleeting trait for Dr. Jillian Losh—it has been the driving force behind every major turn in her career. Today, as a respected science administrator and director of one of MD Anderson Cancer Center’s research centers, she...
New Hot Plate Special at UHD's Food Court
Hungry, Gators? If you are dining on campus, make sure to check out the new items and specials available at UHD's Food Court. In addition to new breakfast items (served until 10:30 a.m.), the UHD Food Court now offers a hot plate special on...
From the Stage to a Career: UHD Student Lands Alley Theatre Internship
As the O’Kane Theatre prepares to open its spring production of “Macbeth” on April 2, involvement with UHD’s drama program is already translating into real-world opportunities for students.
UHD's Bayou's Best: Joe Perez Jr.
After impressing a panel of university leaders, Joe Perez Jr. joins Bayou’s Best, “one of UHD’s highest student leader and ambassador positions.” The accomplishment comes after Perez competed in October’s Bayou’s Best Showcase, a pageant-style event that features “UHD’s best undergraduate and graduate students within the four academic colleges,” says the Office of the Dean of Students website. Perez shares the title with Jessica McCraw, Shikyna William, and Vanessa Mattox, who were also selected as winners.
UHD Students Win Big at Science Research Conference
In late February, 22 students from the University of Houston-Downtown Department of Natural Sciences traveled to the University of Texas at Tyler for the 129th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science (TAS). There, 19 presented on research...